A former Crested Butte-area resident and developer of large homes — one of which burned in 2008 as a result of arson — was found dead in a jail cell in Spain last week.

Andrew Levene, 41, reportedly committed suicide in a Spanish jail after being arrested for the suspected murder of a Connecticut jeweler following a six-week manhunt

Crested Butte’s Monica Mesa has been influential in solidifying what was formerly a “fragmented” yoga scene in the north end of the Gunnison Valley.
 
Mesa is the founder and co-owner of Crested Butte’s sole yoga studio — Yoga for the Peaceful — and more recently is the spearhead behind a first-ever wintertime, slopeside festival devoted to yoga, Yoga Rocks the Butte

WSC Men’s Basketball — If the new year continues like it began for the Western State (WSC) men’s basketball program, the Mountaineers should have a lot to look forward to in March.
 
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A generally shallow, weak and variable snowpack locally has caused avalanche experts to warn backcountry travelers of the potential for triggering a slide. And those touchy conditions in the snowpack aren’t expected to subside anytime soon

Changes to Gunnison County’s workforce housing linkage fee are expected to result in the refund of more than $22,000 to home and business owners who built in the unincorporated county last year.
 
After months of working to craft a more equitable methodology for the calculating the linkage fee, Gunnison County Housing Authority Director KT Gazunis presented a final proposal to the County Commissioners last week